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About Me:
It was exciting. It was new. It was totally spontaneous. It was also the start of a journey that, in less than two years, would take four Winnipeg musicians and one Montreal musician from that fateful basement to Canada's top stages, critic's best-of lists, a coveted spot on Radio-Canada Revelation's list of top artists, and beyond.
The furious pace of this musical momentum is your first hint that Chic Gamine is not quite like the others. Their new album City, City is your second. More on that in a moment; first, a flashback to how it all began.
In the spring of 2007, with a chance at a red-hot California showcase looming, three old friends and former band-mates -- singers Ariane Jean, Andrina Turenne and Annick Bremault -- decided to launch something fresh and new. They found the perfect fusion with drummer and percussionist Sacha Daoud and siren-voiced singer Alexa Dirks; in a matter of weeks, they were recording in that Montreal home studio, and a band was born.
Then came that demo; then an album; then came opening slots for folks such as Smokey Robinson, the nod on CBC Radio-Canada Revelation's top seven artists of 2009-10, and a shiny 2009 Juno Award for Best Roots/Traditional Album. (A big win that, because they were smack-dab in the middle of a highway-pounding North American tour, they celebrated in a log cabin in Montana instead of the big stage.)
That's the prologue. Now, with City, City (due out on Oct. 12), Chic Gamine is ready to get to the heart of their story.
Consider the new album a reminder that this is not your grandpa's vocal music. Call it music for a band where all the parts just happen to be played by voices: on some songs, they sing as a string section. On others, they could be horns. But no matter how those vocals rise and fall, the feeling of their movement -- the pull in the ribcage, the tingle in the spine -- remains the same.
Look at it this way. "Silence can break your heart," Chic Gamine sings on one of City, City's most yearning moments; if that is true, then their songs will mend hearts. There is no silence here, just worlds inside their voices, and voices in their worlds: all five members pen stories about all the beautiful longings of life, tied up by ribbons of exquisite four-part harmonies and Daoud's flashes of just-right drumming.
Needless to say, this approach does not lend itself to easy genre classification. If all you knew of Chic Gamine was their debut album, you might be tempted to call Chic Gamine retro world-beat; after all, there were all those traces of forro (a hat-tip to Daoud's Brazilian upbringing) and old-school R&B and doo-wop and the French-Canadian chanson that three of the four singers grew up with.
But with City, City, that old world-beatish genre label seems suspect. True, the basic musical languages are still there: the chanson, the R&B and the voices, the sweet or soul-torn voices. But this time out, Chic Gamine is showing a sassier side, jazzing up the vibe with percolating drum kit beats and sauntering bass. Call it pop-vox'n'roll, or something.
Or just call it Chic Gamine, and leave it at that: five friends, five bandmates, five talents weaving voices and beats into something fresh, ready to show the world just how much fun a band with voices for strings can be.
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Label Type:
Independent
Band Members:
Andrina Turenne, Alexa Dirks, Annick Bremault, Ariane Jean and Sacha Daoud
Influences:
voices voices voices and heavy beats...you can't deny it when it comes from the soul. laughing at yourself is key.
Sounds Like:
the vocal/roots/pop catergory. does that exist? It's an earful of powertime. One song is never like the next...from 50's doowop to french chanson..from dance beats to cry in your seats... Sounds like, sounds from the "vin-tage" and the "new-tage" brought together by four ladies and many beatssss.
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Canada
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In this studio log-a-sode, Chic Gamine is captured by their good friend and photographer Ben Benvie in between recording and loving one another.
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In July 2011, Chic Gamine conducted a 3 day vocal bootcamp at the Cantos music center in Calgary, Alberta. This was taped by Sacha on the last day...
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Sacha laying it down at the Cantos music center in Calgary. The top floor is a synth museum so Sacha is jamming with one of the guides.
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